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• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

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• Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1920), by Harold J. Laski
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Alter-Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Amy E. Martin (PDF at Ohio State)

• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)

• Influence in Early Stuart Elections, 1604-1640 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by John K. Gruenfelder (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by George M. Shulman (HTML at UC Press)

• Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Jon Mee
  • PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (New York: Fordham University Press, c2017), ed. by Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Sabrina P. Ramet (page images at HathiTrust)

• German Christianity(?) and the Great War (reprinted from The Churchman; London: R. Scott, n.d.), by W. Edward Chadwick (page images here at Penn)

• Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2013), by Todd Landman
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Michael K. Carroll and Greg Donaghy (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• A Problem of Great Importance: Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire, 1918-1973 (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Karl Ittmann (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (London: Pluto Press, c2012), by Donny Gluckstein (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2001), ed. by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2015), by Victor Román Mendoza (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Kai-wing Chow, Kevin Michael Doak, and Poshek Fu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1992), by Mary E. Daly (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• Lithuania Awakening (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Alfred Erich Senn (HTML at UC Press)

• What's Up With Catalonia? The Causes Which Impel Them to the Separation (Ashfield, MA: Catalonia Press, c2013), ed. by Elizabeth Castro, contrib. by Artur Mas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Eric Zolov (HTML at UC Press)

• Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Richard Rorty, Derek Nystrom, and Kent Puckett (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)

• Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World Since 1945 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2001), ed. by Peter L. Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Judy Kutulas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Underground Struggle in Germany (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1938), by Evelyn Lend, contrib. by Reinhold Niebuhr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763, Republished, With Preface and Notes (apparently a different work from Madden's similarly-conceived Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; London: Rivingtons, 1899), ed. by Charles Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annals of an Active Life (2 volumes; New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Nevil Macready (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry Between the Wars (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Michael Dintenfass (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Jordanna Bailkin (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by R. J. Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Trouble and Strife Reader (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), ed. by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Les Troupes de Couleur à la Guerre (in French; Paris: Dubois, 1918), by Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (page images here at Penn)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Healthcare in Ireland and Britain From 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2014), ed. by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

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